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Date: Mar 2021
Provides an overview of broadband-related provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. Discusses the COVID-19 Telehealth Program and the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. Highlights new grant programs to support broadband connectivity on tribal lands and broadband infrastructure deployment to areas lacking broadband.
...Telehealth Program and the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. Highlights new grant programs to support broadband...
Date: 2022
Proceedings from a three-part workshop to explore the initial responses to the pandemic by healthcare teams providing care to people with serious illness, the impact of the pandemic on the healthcare workforce, use of telehealth, issues related to communicating with the public about health emergencies, and policy opportunities to improve care for people with serious illness. Mentions rural throughout.
...telehealth, issues related to communicating with the public about health emergencies, and policy opportunities to improve...
Date: Apr 2025
Provides examples of how rural hospitals are utilizing technology to improve access to care for their patients. Discusses artificial intelligence (AI), drone delivery of medicines, nurse-run telehealth hubs, and digital front doors.
...telehealth hubs, and digital front doors. --- Innovative Rural Hospitals Think Beyond Tradition to Improve Access...
Date: Aug 2023
Podcast episode featuring Farah Ahmad, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Discusses how USDA Rural Development (RD) invests in rural communities, including improving access to healthy foods in rural communities. Provides an overview of the Emergency Rural Health Care Grant program, which helped increase access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural healthcare and telehealth services, and food assistance.
...telehealth services, and food assistance. --- Impact Extra Episode - Rural Health on Life Support Emergency Rural...
Date: Feb 7, 2024
Hoarding disorder can lead to serious health risks and a hazardous home environment, with older adults especially susceptible – but in rural places, diagnosing and treating the condition can be a challenge. - The Rural Monitor
...telehealth calls. Ferrante says the growing popularity of telehealth post-2020 has made it easier...
Date: Nov 2022
Provides an overview of issues related to the provision of emergency medical services (EMS) in rural areas. Discusses rural EMS access, financing, and workforce challenges, as well as promising telehealth innovations. Outlines federal programs and resources that support EMS programs. Offers policy recommendations related to access to EMS, workforce, and reimbursement.
...telehealth innovations. Outlines federal programs and resources that support EMS programs. Offers policy recommendations related...
Date: Jul 1, 2020
Butler Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania received a HRSA Rural Health Care Services Outreach grant to develop a program for chronic disease patients. Partway through the grant cycle, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The hospital shares how it was able to transition its program services to an online format and develop new initiatives to address stress in the healthcare workforce and the larger community. - The Rural Monitor
...telehealth. Stewart credited the quick transition to the hospital's prior telehealth experience, gained through...
Date: Dec 2018
Describes how state and federal laws, regulations, guidance, and policies affect choice and competition in healthcare markets, and offers recommendations for improvement. Includes rural-relevant issues such as scope of practice, workforce mobility, and telehealth.
...telehealth. --- Reforming America's Healthcare System Through Choice and Competition Describes how state and federal...
Date: May 2019
Presents the results of a 2017 survey of North Dakota Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Includes information on hospital characteristics, hospital foundations, relationships with tertiary hospitals, telehealth services, and issues facing CAHs ranked by severity. Covers hospital impacts from the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) program.
...telehealth services, and issues facing CAHs ranked by severity. Covers hospital impacts from the Medicare...
Date: Jul 2024
Provides an overview of disability and independence in rural America. Describes disability prevalence in rural areas and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs for people with disabilities. Outlines key considerations for rural disability services, including access, Medicaid and Medicare coverage, workforce, and telehealth and technology. Highlights themes that emerged during the September 2023 National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Service (NACRHHS) meeting regarding areas for disability and independence policy improvement. Appendix A summarizes NACRHHS subcommittee site visits of two organizations serving rural Colorado residents.
...telehealth and technology. Highlights themes that emerged during the September 2023 National Advisory Committee on Rural...